Meisho Samson completed a famous double at Tokyo on Sunday, overwhelming 15 rivals in the Grade 1, $2.2 million Autumn Tenno Sho. His 2 1/2-length victory made him the first horse to win both the two-mile Spring Tenno Sho and the 1 1/4-mile Autumn Tenno Sho in the same year since racing's all-time leading money earner, TM Opera O, in 2000.

Ibn Khaldun emphatically landed the final Group 1 of the British season on Saturday at Doncaster, taking the Racing Post Trophy by three lengths as the 11-4 favorite.

River Proud set a steady pace at the head of the 12-runner field, with City Leader in close attendance. Ibn Khaldun settled in midfield and was sixth at the halfway point of the straight mile, well within striking distance. The pace quickened two furlongs out as City Leader and Irish challenger Curtain Call disputed the lead, while Ibn Khaldun was already quickening up to challenge.

NEW YORK - One of the definitions of the word "racy" is derived from horse racing, i.e., something that is exciting, colorful, and sometimes just a little bit dangerous. Applied to Kieren Fallon, the word is a perfect fit, although the man himself is frequently a little bit too dangerous for his own good.

Winner of the Group 3 Autumn Stakes at Ascot two weeks ago, Ibn Khaldun can give Godolphin a Group 1 victory in the $409,000 Racing Post Trophy at one mile on Saturday.

Montare, 4-1, won a nose decision over Irish raider Arch Rebel in the Group 2, $185,000 Prix du Conseil de Paris at Longchamp on Sunday, traveling the 1 1/2 miles in 2:29.40.

A 5-year-old daughter of Montjeu, Montare will now head to Sha Tin for the 1 1/2-mile Hong Kong Vase on Dec. 9.

* Linngari earned Group 1 stripes at San Siro in Milan on Sunday, winning the $278,000, one-mile Premio Vittorio di Capua by by three-quarters of a length. He will now go to Dubai for the Winter Carnival there, during which he finished a fast closing second in last year's Dubai Duty Free.

European champion Manduro, 2007 Epsom Derby winner Authorized, and 2006 juvenile champion Teofilo will all enter stud in 2008 with fees between $50,000 and $60,000.

Sheikh Mohammed al-Maktoum's Darley operation announced Monday that Manduro and Teofilo will stand at its Kildangan Stud in Ireland for about $56,400. Authorized will launch his stud career at Darley's Dalham Hall headquarters in England with a fee of about $50,500.

Darley also announced that Manduro and Authorized will switch locations in 2009.

Olivier Peslier became just the fifth jockey in history to win 2,000 races in France when he guided Moonlanding to win a 1 1/4-mile handicap at Chantilly on Thursday. The 34-year-old Frenchman, four times the champion rider in his native land, joins Roger Poincelet, Yves Saint-Martin, Freddy Head, and Dominique Boeuf on that elite list.

Peslier now has about 2,480 victories worldwide in a career that began in 1991.

Prices slipped across the board Thursday as the final sessions of the Tattersalls October yearling sale, termed Book 3, began in Newmarket, England. The first of three days' selling in that portion of the auction produced a $149,940 session-topper, a Mtoto colt that Alex Greaves purchased from Highclere Stud's consignment.

England's Tattersalls auction house began its October yearling sales Tuesday with a session that looked similar to the recently concluded Keeneland September yearling auction, with a lower price at the market peak but an increase in the median price.

Mandesha, last year's champion 3-year-old filly in Europe, has been retired by her owner, Princess Zahra Aga Khan, after her seventh-place finish in Sunday's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.